“The City and Its Uncertain Walls” begins with a young nameless couple. The story truly starts when the girl disappears and the boy, now a middle-aged man, decides to unravel the mystery of the walled city she once spoke of.
What is Autofiction? (5 Autofiction Novels To Read)
In the last few years, but especially in the last two decades, autofiction has garnered much attention and criticism. Some people absolutely love the style and others completely loathe it.
Love it or hate it, it’s a practice many authors engage in when they first begin to write, and return to, once they master their writing.
Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad
“Rouge” follows the unraveling of our main character, Mirabelle. After her mother’s passing, Belle stays in California, cleaning up her mother’s apartment. From there, she’s recruited to Rouge, a Spa that promises her that she can be her Most Magnificent Self, the very same Maison de Méduse that her mother attended before she went the Way of the Roses.
Book Review: Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
“Eileen” is a mystery-thriller crime book following our main character’s disappearance during the week leading up to Christmas.
Book Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
“Red, White & Royal Blue” follows the fake friendship between Alex Claremont-Diaz, the U.S. President’s son, and Prince Henry of England, who happen to be nemeses. A confrontational picture of the two at a wedding makes the tabloid, resulting in Alex and Henry having to reclaim their disastrous narrative by becoming diplomatic friends to save Alex’s mother’s electoral campaign… but they accidentally become lovers instead.
Book Review: Through My Window (Hidalgos #1) by Ariana Godoy
“Through My Window” follows good girl Raquel Álvarez’s crush on her mysterious bad boy neighbour Ares Hildago. This is a steamy, proximity romance about first love and heartbreak.
Book Review: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
“Woman, Eating” follows a 23-year-old vampire starting her art internship and living independently from her mother for the first time.
Book Review: Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein by Anne Eekhout
“Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein” is a dual-timeline reimagining of Mary Shelley’s life. In the first timeline, we follow Mary and her friends (including the notorious Lord Byon) at Lake Geneva in 1816, during the “year without summer.” In the second timeline, we follow a younger Mary, aged fourteen in 1812, during her visit to the Baxter family in Dundee, Scotland.
Book Review: The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez
“The Dangers of Smoking in Bed” is a collection of dark, unsettling, and, at times, grotesquely graphic stories set at the heart of Buenos Aires. Ghosts, superstitions, disappearing children, troubled teenagers, and more!
Book Review: The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
“The Winter Vault” is an expansive book of love, displacement, and grief, written in Anne Michaels’s distinctive poetic style. It is a dual-timeline historical novel, following a young grieving couple and their time spent in Canada (during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway) and Egypt (during the building of the Aswam dam.)
Book Review: Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
“Tell Me Lies” follows Lucy Albright’s journey as a student at a small Californian college, miles away from her mother and her preppy life in Long Island. Amidst new friends and college parties, Lucy meets the enigmatic Stephen DeMarco. From there, her life dips into troubling territory.
Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
“Stoner” is a literary fiction novel, set at the end of the 19th century, that follows William Stoner’s life, a poor son of a Missouri farmer turned university scholar.
